Lockdown at Palm Terrace elementary, but traffic jam remains

August 27, 2010|By Susan Jacobson, Orlando Sentinel

The main post office in Daytona Beach remains closed, but a lockdown has been lifted at a nearby elementary school while a bomb squad inspects a suspicious package left on a sidewalk, authorities said.

The large cardboard box was reported about 2:40 p.m. in front of the post office. The Volusia County sheriff's bomb squad is examining it, Daytona Beach police spokesman Jimmie Flynt said.

Palm Terrace Elementary School was on lockdown for a little more than 90 minutes, but parents may now come and get their children, Volusia schools spokeswoman Nancy Wait said. They must enter from the west.

School officials are trying to contact parents of about 150 children who normally walk so they can be picked up.